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Home Price Forecast:
Fair but Cooler

R ising oil prices mean more than pain at the gas pump: They're the latest factor slowing growth in home prices -- and finally offering buyers a little relief.

So says Case Shiller Weiss, an economic-research company in Cambridge, Mass., in its latest Home Price Forecast, prepared quarterly for The Wall Street Journal. The study tracks changes in average residential-sales prices in 10 cities, and predicts what's ahead for the next year. Although the Federal Reserve recently declined to raise interest rates, the forecasters...